"Will Vice President Rong come?" Ding Kui interjected and asked.
"This is related to the first question I want to ask you today." Gong Lianggu put away his smile, "If Ruan Xingzhu marries you, will Li Fei's status be above or below hers in the future?"
This was a quiet question. Ding Kui thought silently, and Jiang Tong couldn't interrupt. Ruan Xingzhu was Rongci's apprentice. Seriously, his influence was greater than that of Li Fei. It was hard to say which one he valued more.
We can't blame Gong Lianggu for finding trouble. It's not a secret that the two girls like Ding Kui. If Li Fei can marry Ding Kui this time, maybe Ruan Xingzhu can do the same in the future.
"First of all, Xingzhu may not marry into the Ding family. The younger generation has already married one wife and two concubines. If he meets the woman he likes, he will not be given a formal title. However, the younger generation will respect every woman who has been entrusted to the younger generation for the rest of his life. In the younger generation,
In my heart, they are neither big nor small, and after Li Fei marries a junior, her status will not be lower than Luan'er."
This is the answer that Ding Kui has thought about over and over again, and it is quite care-free.
Is a person lying? Elemental magicians can easily tell.
"You can barely pass the test by answering like this. I don't have to care about Li Fei's status. I don't necessarily care about the title of vice president. There is a chief enshrined master, so I have to pay attention to the face of the master." Gong Lianggu seemed to be reminding him.
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"Junior, I didn't think too much about it." Ding Kui knew that he had not seen Ruan Xingzhu for a while, and he was sure that she knew about Li Fei's marriage.
"I heard that you have a good cooperation with the earth magician. I think the water magician can also do more for the people. It should be more than just making some ice cubes and putting out fires." Gong Lianggu's second question came.
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"Master, please wait for a moment. I will go get something." Ding Kui said confidently.
Not long after he left, he brought back a jar of wine, then took out a glass container, filled it with wine, and placed it in front of Gong Lianggu.
"This is the lowest-grade wine among the people. There are many ingredients in the wine. One of them is a liquid that is easy to evaporate, has a pungent smell, and is easy to burn. Master, can you help me purify it?"
This is using the hands of a water magician to purify alcohol!
There is wine in the Shenyuan world, but there is no high-purity wine, and there is even less possibility of alcohol. Ding Kui knew several methods of purifying alcohol, but they could not reach a high enough purity, so he thought of a magician.
Gong Lianggu didn't understand what ethanol was at first, but after Ding Kui patiently explained it, he finally found a similar liquid in the wine.
"Huh? There is such a thing in the wine!"
It is too simple for a water element magician to purify alcohol. With just a wave of his hand, he can extract a small bottle of alcohol with a purity of over 90 degrees.
Ding Kui filled the small bottle with alcohol and immediately capped it.
"This ethanol is very useful. It can replace kerosene to a certain extent. It is produced through the fermentation of grains and fruits. It can be produced as long as there is land and can be applied to the entire continent."
After that, he briefly demonstrated several uses of alcohol.
"So magical!" Gong Lianggu held the small bottle in front of his eyes and examined it carefully, "This ethanol is extremely unstable, so it must be difficult to preserve."
A master is a master, and he can see the characteristics of alcohol at a glance.
"What the master said is true. This product must be bottled in a sealed bottle. There is a risk of explosion if you are not careful." Ding Kui has already begun to imagine the situation of mass production of alcohol.
Gong Lianggu nodded and said: "Well, put wax on the seal. This substance is easily soluble in water and hiding it in the reservoir can reduce the risk of explosion." He is not a person without common sense in life. After all, he has lived for more than a hundred years.
That makes sense, why didn't I think of that.
This reminded Ding Kui that it would be too easy to build a reservoir. The Tongyuan River has an inexhaustible water source.
"This thing is flammable and easy to transform into gas. It has access to three elements and can teach three-series magicians to explore the rules of elements. I didn't expect that you, a knight, could make such a thing. You shouldn't have practiced fighting spirit in the first place. How about learning magic from me?"
, will definitely not lose to those chosen ones." Gong Lianggu regretted that he missed such an outstanding magician seedling.
"It's a pity that it's too late for this junior to know the master!" Ding Kui's expression was so exaggerated that he was almost stunned.
Jiang Tong thought to himself: "If you take Kui'er in, won't the Ding family's inheritance be cut off? Maybe he won't be able to have children after practicing magic, and even my Jiang family's inheritance will be in danger. Fortunately, it didn't fall into your hands."
"Is it difficult to refine ethanol? What level of water magician can do it?" Ding Kui asked again.
"It's not difficult. A trainee magician can also tell the difference. It only consumes very little magic power to refine this thing. However, if the quantity is huge and needs to be divided into multiple containers, it will have to be done by a robe or above." Gong Lianggu.
Words are authoritative.
The alcohol must be sealed immediately after extraction, otherwise it will be too dangerous. The trainee magician can only handle a small amount of production.
"A magician in a robe will do, too. The demand for this stuff is definitely in short supply. The unit price won't be too high but the output is huge. Its production scale will not be lower than that of cement. The military can buy most of it just for the healing and disinfection needs." Ding Kui
Profit has been calculated.
"The imperial court is looking for you to buy, will you sell?" Gong Lianggu looked directly at Ding Kui, and his mental power enveloped him.
"Sell!" Ding Kui answered very simply, "Treating diseases and saving people is the first priority. We can't refuse to sell it just because of the conflict between me and Shaodian. The court will definitely use it mostly for soldiers and people. I am also a Shaodian, so I don't want to sell it."
Necessary to obstruct."
Qiannu's wound was so deep that alcohol alone could not save it. He was not worried that selling it to a hostile force would in turn hurt his people.
"Very good! I got inspiration from your factory, which is very helpful for the production of alcohol. For example, dig a big pond, and I will arrange a magic circle at the bottom of the pond, which can automatically extract the alcohol, and then transfer it to another place for storage." Gong Lianggu
He came up with this method after making sure that Ding Kui would not monopolize the alcohol.
Ding Kui asked urgently: "Do you need a magician to maintain operation?"
"Of course, activating the magic circle requires magic power, maintaining the magic circle requires magic core, and channeling alcohol requires mental power. It requires at least one water magician to look after it." Gong Lianggu cannot estimate how long a robed magician can work for the time being.
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You can build a closed wine pool on the ground, with the top pipe leading to a large steel bottle. The steel bottle can be divided into multiple bridles. Hey, the alcohol manufacturing plant is too simple.
Ding Kui had already thought about the prototype of the alcohol factory, and then asked: "How big of a pool can the magic circle control?"
"It's ten meters high." Gong Lianggu gestured.
One hundred cubic meters is about eighty tons. The purification ratio is one to ten. Ordinary water and wine can extract eight tons. If produced twice a day, it is sixteen tons. One kilogram of alcohol sells for one hundred copper coins. The daily output value is one hundred and sixty gold coins.
After deducting the cost, there is a gross profit of at least one hundred gold coins.
"How many alcohol-making formations can you help me arrange for this junior?" Ding Kui's mind flashed with wine cans, and his eyes flashed with the light of gold coins.
Gong Lianggu smiled slightly and said: "Materials are needed to arrange the magic circle. Some of them are my own secret recipes. I can't help you arrange them without limit. I think there will be ten at most."
Ten is one thousand gold coins a day, more than three hundred thousand a year, which is not bad, equivalent to the tax revenue of a medium-sized city.
"Okay, hire a low-level magician for a pool, fifteen gold coins a day." Ding Kui immediately made a bid.
"Thirty gold coins!" Gong Lianggu raised three fingers.
Ding Kui said with a sad face: "It's too much. This junior will have no money to earn. Eighteen gold coins, no more."
"I even confiscated the material fee for setting up the magic circle, which is twenty gold coins. Magicians have dignity!" Gong Lianggu gave in a big step.
"Wow, a level 3 fighter earns twenty gold coins a day. Where can I find such a good job? With six hundred gold coins a month, I can hire a shield-breaking knight." Ding Kui deliberately used knights as an example.
There are many more knights in Shaodian Kingdom than magicians.
"Then you ask the knight to refine the alcohol. Twenty gold coins can't be lower!" Gong Lianggu insisted and refused to let go.
Seeing this, Ding Kui knew that he could no longer suppress it, so he had to say: "Since the master asked so, then do as the master wants!"
"In addition, I have another condition." Gong Lianggu came up with an impromptu idea. "I want to build an alcohol factory in Pingzhong County. You don't need to pay a copper plate, but I will give you 10% of the shares. I also guarantee that the scale of the factory will not exceed yours.
The amount of alcohol you produce is limited, and it is too far for the imperial court to come and buy it. Why not let the Teng family take advantage. From now on, the Teng family will be your allies. Of course, on the surface, you have to listen to the imperial court. If the imperial court wants alcohol, it will turn a blind eye.
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He is a nostalgic person who never forgets the kindness of the Teng family's ancestors and supports the Teng family whenever he has the opportunity.
"Master, you are very calculating. Pingzhong County is located in the hinterland of the south. It can sell alcohol all over the country. The market is much stronger than that of the younger generation." Ding Kui did not express his position clearly.
"You can sell it abroad, are you still worried about sales?" Gongliang Gu could see more clearly than Ding Kui imagined.
"Okay, just for the sake of the master, I agreed!" Ding Kui invested in the company with intellectual property rights and set an example for the world.
"Not bad! You have the ambition to do big things. My third question is, what do you want to do?" Gong Lianggu asked about Shao Dian Luan's request for his brother to be reinstated.
Ding Kui answered with his head held high: "This junior wants to transform Shaodian Country in his own way!"
Gong Lianggu was not surprised and turned his head to look at Jiang Tong.
"On the surface, the chaos in the kingdom is caused by the instability of the throne, but in reality it is caused by the instability of the military. After my old in-laws passed away, the foundation of the military collapsed, making it difficult for the various legions to unite together. This allowed the rebels to find opportunities to cause trouble.
Kingdom, otherwise the Yang family would be suppressed by the military as soon as they rebelled, how could the current situation arise?"
Jiang Tong did not reserve his opinion.
"I think the Ding family is qualified to regain control of the military, recast the foundation of the military, and bring the kingdom back to the right path."
His voice was tantamount to the Jiang family's statement that the behemoth that had been hiding under the water all year round was about to show its fangs in order to help Ding Kui seize control of the military.
"Yes." Gong Lianggu nodded and said, "I have no other intentions. I agree with Li Fei to marry you because I want to know what your future prospects will be. Now it seems that you have the strength to intervene in the battle for the throne, and you will have the opportunity to become the Protector of the Country in the future.
of brilliance.
The last question is, if you fail, do you have a way out?"